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The House Republican Conference spent the weekend laboring over the unenviable task of reading the Pelosi health-care bill, all 1,990 pages of it. While they were at it, they noted the new federal boards, bureaucracies, commissions, and programs that the bill would establish. The number — are you sitting down? — is 111. These include everything from a “Telehealth Advisory Committee,” whatever that might be, to an “Independence at home demonstration program” to a “Comparative Effectiveness Research Trust Fund” to a “Public health workforce loan forgiveness program” to a “University centers for excellence in developmental disabilities education” and on and on and on and …